Tales From Entrepreneurship-I GOT AN IDEA!!

Good morning, everybody. Morning was a big miss afternoon. Good afternoon, everybody at Cadre. Say, do you ever remember a job that you had when you were younger that you just loved that you absolutely loved that you didn't have to get paid a dollar to do what you did, right? For me, that was an organization that I worked at called pro maintenance. It was this epoxy flooring. So imagine taking like, this concrete floor that had was all roughed up and it was gross. And we worked at some of the depths of despair of some of these places and garages and large corporations and companies and manufacturing places.

And you take this, you know, disgusting, disgusting floor that's on concrete, right? Disgusting floor. And you do all this work on the floor to get it level, you get it perfect. And then finally you lay this epoxy flooring and this stuff just turns out just beautiful. It's. It's like one of the most magical experiences. In fact, one of my jobs was to take the seven inch grinder, like literally the seven inch grinder, go all the way around the edges, grind it all up all on my knees, do all the grinding and stuff like that, and then ultimately lay this epoxy flooring.

So the floor would just look beautiful, right? I did this when I was 1516 1718 years old, excuse me, years old. Now, I was in college then I would come back even, and then I would, I would work a couple times, you know, over the summer, make some good money. But I loved it. I absolutely, utterly loved it. So, tales from entrepreneurial ship, right? So I just met with an individual. His name is Greg, and he has been in the coffee business now for years and years and years and years. And he's also in a variety of other businesses.

But when he talks about the coffee business, just how I lit up about epoxy and epoxy flooring is how he did with coffee. It's that in that infectious nature, it's just so palpable. You can see it in him. You can feel it in him. You can see why, you know, coffee is such a big part of his life and always a. He's a proponent of it and it's important and it matters, and why he wants to continue on his entrepreneurial journey to be in the coffee business. So why do I say this? And why is it important for you?

Right? Of all the kids that I graduated with, of all the kids that I graduated, I graduated from Hutchinson High School. Of all the kids I graduated with, there's an individual that probably be deemed like an outsider, you know, some people may even say you've been bullied, you know, and stuff like that. But I tell you, and he struggled with school. He was not in many sports except for wrestling, right. But when it came to tool shop and it came to working with your hands, and when it came to building things in that class, he may have done terrible in all the other things of, you know, math and sciences and whatever, but when he got into that class, and it was he, when he was with Mister Daken, he absolutely was a genius and a man amongst the rest of the boys.

When it came to working with his hands building and those welding materials and all that stuff that he did, it was. It was magical. And you could see, like, even our, our. Even our teacher would ask Nick to show, you know, his work instead of everybody else's. So again, I ask, why does this matter for you? Well, it matters because one of the most successful individuals that graduated with all of us, you know, kids at Hutchinson, was Nick. And he developed this amazing welding company in our backyard in the Midwest area.

And probably a lot of the things, if you ever dealt with metal, is probably coming from his company and his manufacturing plant. But he had a love for it, and he had a passion for it. And when you have a love and passion for what you do, you find ways to figure it out. You find ways to build your business. You find ways for things to be infectious, because they are. That's exactly right, Barbara. Enthusiasm is so contagious and powerful. It is. That energy is palpable. And when he worked with his hands building those welding materials and doing that, the smile on his face and what he had go through it.

In fact, I think my dad contracted him out to build something for jet skis someday. So what I'm saying is this, you may be an outsider on some of the things that you love to do, right? You may be an outsider, but, you know, maybe you're cleaning your hotel rooms, maybe you're working behind the scenes, you know, at your local coffee shop. Maybe you're doing those things, and you love some of those things that you love what to do. Maybe it's the cleaning part, maybe it's the organization part. Maybe it's one of those things.

But what I'm telling you is this. If you find your love and passion behind some of the opportunities that you had over the years, especially looking back to when maybe money didn't matter as much in the. Maybe you take a look and say, like, I just love to do it, because I love to do it. You know, you hear this. A lot of times people say, like, I get paid to play a child's game, but you can also get paid by your passion, and you can also build with your passion. So maybe, maybe you're cleaning a hotel room today and you're smiling behind that vacuum cleaner, and you are having the best day of your life listening to a podcast and doing all those things.

And maybe, maybe now's the time that you want to bet on yourself and your passion to maybe start a cleaning company. Maybe you've been working at a gas station for the last five to seven years, and you love the connection that you have with all the people that come in for coffee, and you love connecting with them, and they look at you and you bring a smile to their face, and they bring a smile to your face, and that's infectious that way. Well, you know, maybe, maybe finding something in the coaching field that's a niche that you love is something that you can do, too.

Maybe you can build a business that way. Maybe you can build something in hospitality. Who knows? But I don't know what it's like over the last decade to not live and breathe and eat the business of your passion. I I'm blessed. I'm fortunate. I'm lucky. I found my why. I found my purpose. I know exactly why I'm supposed to be here. But maybe, maybe you can, too. And maybe, maybe everybody has an opportunity to wake up every morning and be adamant, be energized, be dedicated, be passionate, be loving in awe, to get the opportunity to do what you get to do every day.

So never forget that. Barbara, you're right. Endless possibilities for every human. Yes. Yes, and yes. No matter what you see on this planet, you could be driving by a stop sign. Somebody made it. And somebody probably loved to make that stop sign. Alec, 100%, life is way too short not to yes. If you are not doing what you love, find the exit sign. Find the exit sign and enter a freeway that you do. With that, I hope everybody on this call, everybody that's listening to this live, can ask themselves and deep dive, am I really, really, really doing what I'm passionate about?

Am I really, really being the change agent that I want to be? Am I making my own life better just by waking up every morning when you get there, watch out, watch out. Have an amazing rest of your week. I hope that was important.